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Improve actions in cloud provisioning template

I want to display more information when user invokes an action on software service instance before user click OK button to proceed. (see screenshot below) 1) currently <instructions> tag and <workflow> tag cannot be together under <...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF RESTful API for initial dump analysis feature

Dear, Our customer ICBC learned that we've delivered the initial dump analysis feature in z/OSMF incident log plugin. Then they request us to provide one RESTful API for this feature. Thanks!
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

SWA SVA changes in z/OS V2.2 do not provide public API to provide SVA address translation for non-IBM dump formatters

• Changes in z/OS V2.2 to SWA SVA, that facilitates SVA translation, have occurred and have subsequently moved these internal control blocks above the bar. • Users of SWAREQ and IEFHQMREQ are not affected, but ISV dump formatters, that will usuall...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

z/OS OMPROUTE OSPF support for LSA type 7

Some sort of support required for LSA type 7 when dealing with Cisco ACI fabric networking. Our OSPF implementation with VIPA allows our systems to move between sites seamlessly but with the new ACI fabric we can't define every host as "totally st...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

PGAR0109-1197-Increasing the maximum volume count of 59 per data set

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: gulfemo@garanti.com.trSubmitters Company: Garanti Teknoloji PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PGAR0109-1197-Increasing the maximum volume count of 59 per data setHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core Tech...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Not under consideration

PLAC1204-773 Improve dataset DSCB information (aging information)

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: La Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC1204-773 Improve dataset DSCB information (aging information)Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: C...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 2 Future consideration

HIS: produce Jobname/STCName Records for ALL Asids in the System

HIS procedure a ASID to JOBNAME mapping only for JOBs in MAPASID or MAPJOBJ. It whould be more than nice to extend that function on all ASIDs in the System...not one the ones which should be mapped.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 3 Not under consideration

IMS List Structure requires Asynchronous Duplexing functionality

It is planned to have the Asynchronous duplexing functionality available soon but only for lock Structures. It would be really useful for us to include in the roadmap the IMS List structure (logger structure and message structure).
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 5 Future consideration

HealthCheck IBMUSS,USS_CLIENT_MOUNTS with NFS unusable

In our environment the health check displays permanently NFS errors which are in our customisation nomal. Everything is working fine, but the HealthCheck is generally unusable with these NFS CLIENT=Y errors. Problem is not solvable thru a change i...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

Provide UNIX dirfd() functionality on z/OS for portability

dirfd - extract the file descriptor used by a DIR streamJustification: For purposes of porting code from other UNIX platforms to z/OS support for the OpenGroup defined dirfd() function should be provided so that a directory can be assigned a file ...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

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